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José Javier Cuervo

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AN ANALYSIS OF CONTINENT-WIDE PATTERNS OF SEXUAL SELECTION IN A PASSERINE BIRD

2006

Patterns of selection are widely believed to differ geographically, causing adaptation to local environmental conditions. However, few studies have investigated patterns of phenotypic selection across large spatial scales. We quantified the intensity of selection on morphology in a monogamous passerine bird, the barn swallow Hirundo rustica, using 6495 adults from 22 populations distributed across Europe and North Africa. According to the classical Darwin-Fisher mechanism of sexual selection in monogamous species, two important components of fitness due to sexual selection are the advantages that the most attractive males acquire by starting to breed early and their high annual fecundity. W…

biologyDirectional selectionbiology.organism_classificationFecunditySexual dimorphismEvolutionary biologySexual selectionHirundoGeneticsFecundity selectionAdaptationGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesSelection (genetic algorithm)Ecology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsEvolution
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Going underground: short- and long-term movements may reveal the fossorial spatial ecology of an amphisbaenian

2021

[Background]: The movement and spatial ecology of an animal depends on its morphological and functional adaptations to its environment. In fossorial animals, adaptations to the underground life help to face peculiar ecological challenges, very different from those of epigeal species, but may constrain their movement ability.

0106 biological sciencesMovement patternsEcology (disciplines)010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesAmphisbaenians03 medical and health sciencesSpace useTrogonophis wiegmannilcsh:QH301-705.5PIT tag telemetryEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics030304 developmental biology0303 health sciencesMovement (music)EcologyResearchSpace useFossorialTerm (time)Geographylcsh:Biology (General)Animal ecologyFossorial reptilesSpatial ecologyEpigeal
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Support for a colleague.

2004

As collaborators of Anders Pape Moller, we were shocked and surprised to read that he was accused of data fabrication (“Ecologists roiled by misconduct case,” G. Vogel, F. Proffitt, R. Stone, News of the Week, 30 Jan., p. [606][1]). We have never had cause to be concerned about any aspect of

PublishingMisconductMultidisciplinaryEcologyPhilosophyLawScientific MisconductScience (New York, N.Y.)
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